The Kataastaasan, Kagalanggalangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KAK) or

Katipunan is arguably the most important organization formed in the Philippine history.
While anti-colonial movements, efforts, and organizations had already been established
centuries prior to the foundation of the katipunan, it was only this organization that
envisioned:
- A United Filipino nation that would revolt against the Spaniards for
- The total independence of the country from Spain
Previous armed revolts had already occurred before the foundation of the Katipunan, but
none of them envisioned a unified Filipino nation revolting against the colonizers. For
example, Diego Silang was known as an Ilocano who took up his arms and led one of
the longest running revolts in the country. Silang. however, was mainly concerned about
his locality and referred to himself as El Rey de Ilocos (The King of locos). On the other
hand, the propaganda movements led by the ilustrados like Marcelo H. del Pilar,
Graciano Lopez Jaena, and Jose Rizal did not envision a total separation of the
Philippines from Spain, but only demanded equal rights, representation, and protection
from the abuses of the friars.
Analysis of the “Kartilya ng Katipunan”

This primary source also needs to be analyzed in terms of content and

context. As a written document for a fraternity whose main purpose is to overthrow
a colonial regime, we can explain the content and provisions of the Kartilya as a
reaction and response to certain value systems that they found despicable in the
present state of things that they struggled against with. For example, in the fourth
and the thirteen rules in the Kartilya are an invocation of the inherent equality
between and among men regardless of race, occupation or status. In the context of
the Spanish colonial era where the indios were treated as the inferior of the white
Europeans, the Katipunan saw to it that the alternative order that they wished to
promulgate through their revolution necessarily destroyed this kind of unjust
hierarchy.
Analysis of the “Kartilya ng Katipunan”

Equality, tolerance, freedom, and liberty were values that first emerged in
the eighteenth-century French Revolution, which spread throughout Europe and
reached the educated class of the colonies. Jacinto, an ilustrado himself, certainly
got an understanding of these values. Aside from the liberal values that can be
dissected in the document, we can also decipher certain Victorian and chivalrous
values in the text. For example, various provisions in the Kartilya repeatedly
emphasized the importance of honor in words and in action. The teaching of the
Katipunan on how women should be treated with honor and respect, while positive
in many respects and certainly a significant stride from the practice of raping and
physically abusing women, can still be telling of the Katipunan's secondary regard
for women in relation to men.
LESSON 2.3 THE PROCLAMATION OF INDEPENDENCE
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- https://youtu.be/rgYWIGq2vbQ

LESSON 2.4 ANALYSIS ON THE POLITICAL CARICATURE

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LESSON 2.5 CORAZON AQUINO’S SPEECH BEFORE THE US

CONGRESS

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